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Tory policy still needs some improvements

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 30, 2008
    • | CYP Now
There is a very real prospect that the next government will be a Conservative one. So it's encouraging that apart from the small matter of a global economic crisis, issues affecting children, young people and families took centre stage at the party's annual conference this week.

Editorial: Mentors give hope to young people in custody

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 16, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Among the myriad challenges of transforming young lives, rehabilitation of young offenders will always be among the toughest. The number of 16- to 25-year-olds behind bars has soared by one-third in the past decade while the majority go on to reoffend, reflecting the enormity of the task.

Editorial: Putting the fun into funded projects

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 15, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Youth services across the UK went into overdrive this summer. A whole of host of projects were set up, ranging from traditional sport schemes and youth festivals to more targeted support programmes for young people considered at risk.

Young people's 'endz' can be dicey territory

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, September 9, 2008
    • | CYP Now
"There is hatred between people from different areas. Everyone is putting on this hard outer shell. If you put on that outer shell you have to act it out because your friends think that's who you are"... "If you are part of a gang then you're not a very free person and you'll be wanted in another area"... "Fear is one of the worst things that holds people back and controls them".

Editorial: Don't fear stepping back into the ring

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, July 30, 2008
    • | CYP Now
It was one particularly epic fight between Chris Eubank and Michael Watson in the early 1990s that really forced home the dangers of boxing. Watson was left in a coma for 40 days and ultimately disabled, which led to mass hysteria in the media and calls for the sport to be banned.

Creativity must be at the heart of play strategy

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 29, 2008
    • | CYP Now
There is one commodity that cannot be underestimated in holding the key to children's development: public space. As Play England director Adrian Voce puts it, "children need space first and equipment second," (see Interview, p19).

Youth crime demands a mature approach

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 15, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The Youth Crime Action Plan was being drafted frantically as CYP Now went to press. This keenly anticipated document is the most high-profile piece of children's policy this year.

Laws can cement Labour's legacy for children

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 8, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Children's Secretary Ed Balls characterises the effective working of children's trusts at local level as one of the key tasks of his second year in post, in our exclusive interview this week (see p16).

Editorial: The decline of the male youth worker

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2008
    • | CYP Now
It's hard to imagine nowadays a time when male youth workers outnumbered female youth workers. But back in the early 1980s it was not unusual for youth services to employ twice as many male youth workers as women.

Editorial: Immigrant children remain children first

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 1, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Children's rights campaigners won an important breakthrough last week with the decision that immigration officers will be subject to the same duty to ensure children's safety as other agencies (see p9). The requirement relates to Section 11 of the Children Act 2004, which is the duty to make arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. This duty, which will apply to all staff employed at the UK Border Agency (UKBA), will be incorporated in the forthcoming Immigration Bill.

A good start, but the DCSF must keep its nerve

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 24, 2008
    • | CYP Now
How time flies. On 28 June, it will be one year since the creation of The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). From the outside, the department has gone about its business at a lightning pace, the focal point being its publication of The Children's Plan and many subsequent action plans. But according to our expert panel, the DCSF just about scrapes a "good" rating for its performance over the past 12 months, with numerous concerns unresolved (see p12).

Positive action will counter negative images

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 17, 2008
    • | CYP Now
Congratulations to this year's Positive Images award winners, who have provided a fine example of what can be achieved when young people's creativity and active participation is allowed to shine through (see our feature, pp 20-23).

Editorial: Schools must face up to their duty to society

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 27, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The onus on schools to maximise children's wellbeing, as well as their educational attainment, was stepped up a notch last week. Guidance issued by the Department for Children, Schools and Families stated that schools should be the "first line of response" for tackling gang culture.

Editorial: A tough decade for the youth justice system

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 20, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The youth justice system is under heightened scrutiny as we approach the tenth anniversary of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, which created the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) alongside local youth offending teams (YOTs).

Editorial: There is no magic bullet to halt gang violence

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, May 13, 2008
    • | CYP Now
The problem of gang-related knife crime unfortunately shows no sign of abating. It is now wedged firmly into the national consciousness, summing up the feeling of malaise that this government's detractors have branded as "Broken Britain".

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